I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Booking.com (Amsterdam) in Dec 2022
Interview
Applied through their website. It took 3 weeks to get an invitation for a hackerrank challenge. The challenge lasts 75 minutes and it's a mix of easy to medium hackerrank problems. The biggest challenge is to finish on time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
4 challenges: 1. Given integers x,y,z and n find all integers from 1 to n that are multiples of x or y, and not of z. 2. Given 2 lists with reservations, find the ones missing from the second list. 3. Given a list of employees and their work schedule find their breaks. 4. The 4th is the hard one. You can find it by googling for "[Booking.com] Award Top K Hotels [OA] HackerRank"
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Booking.com in Jul 2022
Interview
First they send me an online test included three leetcode style questions. Then I got a recruter call. Then I had an online whiteboard coding interview with a technical lead. And I got rejected.
A programming test with three easy to medium algorithm problems, then a standard screening interview with a recruiter, then another uncomplicated coding interview with a graph problem, then a system design interview, then a rejection letter. Advice to interviewers: buy mics, put them close to your mouths, do something about acoustics in your conference rooms.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Leetcode-style problems (general algorithms and graph problems). Design a simple booking availability indicator.